Religion

Judaism
In Judaism, Talmud discusses the Rabbis warnings against visting a stadium or circuses. In the eleventh century they interpreted stadiums as a place where they taunt the bull because of how they treat the bull and  when they kill the bull is a taunt for Judaism. In the same century they started asking people if one may hunt for sport and people started answering that one may not for it involves putting oneself in danger and is a demonstration of cruelty toward animals. Also they start asking is one may watch a bullfight so they answered that it is forbidden people start saying that one must not go to places where in there are performing cruelty actions agains they animal that is the bull so this type of religion is very weird because they dont like the bullfighting instead they think that is a taunt be in a stadium and see a blood sport because nobody like to see how they kill a bull because they also said that is a taunt when toreros start playing with them and then they kill them. In college they explain why is bad this sport that in so many country's they practice this blood sport that at  one hand is a very good spectacle but at the other had is a bad sport because they are killing the animal.

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Marvin, Garry, "Bullfight", 1988, University of Illinois Press

Hazards

In the Spanish style of bullfighting its normal to see a fatal for a bull but also it have dangerous the matador. The picadors and banderilleros are sometimes gores by the bull, but this accidents are not common in the Spanish style. Sometimes matadores have been gored many times like Juan Belmonte, he have been in so many accidents with the bull. When one matador is gored by a bull they already have a surgeon that he is specialized with the treats of cornadas or horn wounds, this type of special surgeon was developed in Spain. When a matador is going to bullfight he first go to a chapel and pray before the spectacle so he can have any accident inside the ring but sometimes some matadors they are no lucky and have very fatal accidents so they can die. At this years the hospitals have more technology and the matador can bee treated very fast by the surgeon and he can live, at past time they dont have this technology and the matadors die because they where no treated. They tell me that one matador Julio Aparicio's he is the one that have more horrific of bullfighting injuries, one of his fatal accidents was a piercing in the chin by a bull's horn.


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Wood, Tristan, "How To Watch A Bullfight", 2011, Merlin Unwin Books

Bullfighting in Oman

Oman is the only country in the Persian Gulf and the Arab world in which bullfighting is carried out. Its amazing that only in one country in Arab world  its carried out the bullfighting. In this country they dont have bullfighting rings because of the right of the animal and the laws of the country they need to have temporary bullrings and they used only when it have a spectacular event. The Al-Batena city is an area in where most of the events happen because in there they have more rights and only with one they can make agreements with the government. In Oman the bullfighting is not considered a violent or blood event. The origins of this blood sport are unknown they dont know who started this sport but many people though that this sport spanish people brought to this country. Other people think that its also attributed to portugal people because they said that Portugal conquer or colonized the coast of Oman, so any people know who or which one brought this blood and violent sport to the coast of Oman its a mystery they have in Oman country. So we conclude that also in Arab world they practice the bullfighting and they dont have restrictions.


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Bullfighting: Culture & Controversy – slideshow by Life magazine

Portuguese style bullfighting

The Portugueses styl bullfighting is made with 2 phases. The first phase is the spectacle of cavalerio in which it participate a horseman in which this man with a horse start make a incredible spectacle piercing at the back with some banderillas make him start been tired and be injury. The horseman start piercing with 4 banderillas at the back of the bull, but this movements can have very bad accidents it can go down the man or the horse can be pierce by the bull but people enjoy this spectacles are unique. The second phases is the called the pega in which the forcados a group of eight men they put all the men's in a line in front of the bull so without any protection in them or a defense they start running in front of the bull so the bull start running also and the specific work of the men is control the bull is like face to face so the first man is the one who start controlling the bull with his arms at the head and fellows of the bull so the people that are at the back they start pushing everyone so the bull can be control and they can make they spectacle correctly. The bad thing of this group name the forcados they can become injury or they can die because they dont have defense in them so they are like with only some dress and they put his life on risk.


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"Bullfighting." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2009. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 14 Jan. 2009

Free style bullfighting

This is a new style for bullfighting in where it was invented by the people how protect the animals of killing them, this style is a not blood sport because in here the bull never is going to die. This style has another name in where in america they called rodeo in where people start playing with the bull so this animal dont became an angry bull because in a bullfighting all we know is that the bull is so crazy that want to kill the torero and the torero start making a very good spectacle in where its consider a blood sport at finally at the end of the spectacle the bull die, so in this style the bull its never going to die because of a torero in here is only to play with the bull doding or been on top of the bull and wait in there some minutes and they determine how wins but the first thing is that the bull starts running or jumping like a crazy animal. In the United States they made competitions of rodeo in where they play with the bull but never they kill the bull, in this style nobody is going to die only if they have an accident that all of use we don't want.


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Raphael Minder (28 July 2010). "Spanish Region Bans Bullfighting". nytimes.com. Retrieved 28 July 2010.

Animal Rights Bullfighting

All animals have their rights, but the bull have something special he participate on bullfightings in where they die. The bull's die in a cruel manner, they participate in a bloodsport in where sometimes they can live or they can die , this decision is from the Torero. They exist some groups that are against the bullfighting that they want some rights for the bulls. That people are the persons who start doing crazy things so the government can give the rights to the bulls. In Spain they exist several groups that defend the animal rights but the most document they defend are from the bulls because is a bloodsport and they thing that is bad for god. Some people start to fight like simulating the bullfighting and they start to pierce them with a knife and some people start to die because they want to defend the rights for the bulls but still doing this spectacles the government don't see this actions. In Mexico they have the same groups but still having it they don't care about the animals right they want a big spectacle, a bloodsport hearing  band music and drinking a beer, this is common in Mexico. Sometimes the groups who defend the animals rights they go to a news paper or to the News so they can send a message to the government that animals but specially the bulls need to have their rights.

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Elisabeth Hardouin-Fugier. Bullfighting: A Troubled History (U. of Chicago Press, 2010); 206 pages

French Style

"In the 19th century the French style has been increasing in the Southern France" (Fiske). In France the bullfighting has increased like a sport or for culture. They have their most important arenas for bullfighting, some are the ancient Roman arena of Nimes and Arles. The French style of  bullfighting is more common in the Provence and Languedoc arenas in where they practice this dificult sport. This is a bloodless spectacle in which the objective of the Torero is for kill them, but they need to pierce them in the head of a young bull. The participants that are the Toreros they begin training in their early years with young bulls before they graduate. Before the spectacle begins they take some bulls into the street, in which young men compete and start running until they enter to the arena is a tradition in France, Mexico, and Spain. They have another French style for bullfighting in which cows are used instead of bulls. This competition between teams named cuadrillas, which each team belong to certain states. "A cuadrilla is made up of a teneur de corde, an entraineur, a sauter and six ecarteurs they have the same style as Spain" (Fiske). The toreros are the same as Spain and Mexico but they are other differet types of persons that help to the torero so he can kill the bull. The cows are brought to the arena in boxes and then taken out in order, the cows are not like the bulls that are very creazy and they don´t think at all. They have different rules that are applied in some competitions, but it resulted so many fatalities that French government tried to take out this sport but many people complain with the government so they don´t take out this sport. It´s more different to be with a bull in a corrida than be with a cow because the bulls are more dangerous, are creazy aniamls and have more mobility. In this spectacles the participants and spectators share the risk to be kill, because they know cases that the bull go to the barriers and start running and hurting spectators, this accident´s are very common in smalll arenas.


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Fiske-Harrison, Alexander, "Into The Arena: The World of the Spanish Bullfight", 2011.

Spanish style bullfighting

In Spain their style bullfighting is called corrida de toros or la fiesta, also in Mexico we call this sport like corrida de toros. This is a traditional corrida in where three matadores each fight with  two bulls, each of which is between four and six old and wheighs no less than 460kg moreless. "Each matador has six assistants two picadores "lancers on horseback" where their job if for hurt the bull from the back" (Fiona). With this help  the torero it wouldn´t have any problem because the bull it would be tired and they also they are mounted on horseback, three banderilleros who along with the matadors are collectively that make the bull be tired, know as toreros and a mozo de espadas "sword page" (Fiona). The word matador is only used in engish where in spanish the more general torero is used like in Spain or Mexico they use only the word torero. In Spain in the spectacle, first they present all the toreros then in a big door it enter all the torero, horseback and some banderilleros, they are accompained by a band music with very good songs. The torero use an elegant dress where you think that the dress has diamonds and the matadores use a gold dress make you think that the dress has gold. The banderilleros are the opposite they use silver dress because they are the one´s that help the torero. When the spectacle is going to start only one torero is waiting to the bull, so it´s start the show and you have a very good spectacle.


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Fiona Govan, Bullfighting´s Future in Doubt , The Telegraph 20 Dec. 2006.

What's BullFighting ?

"Is a traditional spectacle in Spain, Mexico, Portugal, France and latin american countries" (Fiona). This sport is not very usuall to see on T.V or in a stadium. This tradition is that one or more bulls are baited in a bullring this is for a sport or a entretainment for the people. This is a blood sport because in the spectacle they kill the bulls and you see hoy they kill and how the blood starts to go over the floor, people don´t like to see blood so they start to have bad symptoms. This is no a competition is only a sport for men who has the heart to kill a animal and put his life on risk, because it has been many cases that a torero die because of a bull. This tradition had been practiced every year, this involves porfessional toreros, who they do  maneuvers at close range this movements they do when they start seen how to kill the bull and how to make that the bull feel tired. For kill a bull they need a inspiration and a emotional connection with his feellings because when they are bullfighting they take out all their feellings and they start to be another person. After the bull has been hooked multiple times behind the shoulder by the matador in the arena the bullfight usually concludes with the killing of the bull by a single sword which " is called estocada" (Fiona). In some countries kill bulls or be practice this sport is illegal like Portugal and some other countries because they think that kill a animal they can have bad looky or god can punish them. Before the spectacle begins is a tradition that a group of people that are the forcados try to grab and hold the bull by its horns when it reuns at them is increadible how this people starts fighting with the bull and how the bull can kill them very fast but in this sport thanks god no all toreros die, they have injurys but very bad injurys.

Fiona Govan,  Bullfighting´s Future in Doubt , The Telegraph 20 Dec. 2006.